Archive for the '-Eschatology' Category
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
(Getty Images via @daylife) It is reported by The Christian Post that false teacher Harold Camping has finally confessed that he was wrong in setting his dates for Christ’s return and says that he deeply regrets his mistakes. He says that he was particularly wrong to claim that God had stopped saving people after [...]
Filed under: -Bible Interpretation, -Eschatology
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) Family Radio Network preacher Harold Camping, failed in his high profile well publicized prediction for the end of the world on May 21. Now he says that his new date of Oct. 21 is ‘probably’ the definite date?: “A lot of things we didn’t have quite right will probably be finished [...]
Filed under: -Apocalyptic, -Eschatology, False Teachers
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
When is the rapture? With all of the confusion sowed recently by Harold Camping and his date setting group, here is a good article by Greg Koukl defining what the Bible has to really say about when the rapture is going to happen: “The Rap on the Rapture” Koukl concludes from the scriptures that it [...]
Filed under: -Eschatology, Bible Issues
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
(Image by Newbirth35 via Flickr) There are nearly 2,000 billboards around the world warning folks that the world is going to end as we know it on May 21. Some of the warnings are painted on cars, vans, and RV’s like the one shown here. This current prediction of doom and rapture is the [...]
Filed under: -Apocalyptic, -Eschatology, Bible Issues
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) There is an under current and subtext to all of the revolts that are going on across the Muslim Middle East and North Africa. There is an Muslim dream and ideal that is being expressed that continues to go unreported because it does not meet the Western template nor does it [...]
Filed under: -Eschatology, Islam, Radical Islamists
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
(Image via Wikipedia) Isn’t God done with Israel? Didn’t the church replace the Jews as God’s people? I hear this from well meaning Christians from time to time. The answers are no and yes but not completely. It is plain from scripture that God is not done with Israel. Paul writes on this issue in [...]
Filed under: -Eschatology, -Salvation, Christianity, Israel, Judaism
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
(Image by Ben Piven via Flickr) Today in Iran they are ‘celebrating’ the 31st anniversary of the capture of the American embassy by Islamist students. As usual mass protests are scheduled by the government and the authorities get to harangue the USA before hand picked crowds of thousands of students bussed to the capital [...]
Filed under: -Apocalyptic, -Eschatology, -Religion & Culture, Islam, Shia
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Image by loswl via Flickr Here’s a concise article by Bill Pratt about what the early church thought about the Millennium: “Did the Early Church Believe in a Literal Thousand-Year Reign of Christ on Earth?” Excellent synopsis with a poll at the end testing our current understanding. *Top
Filed under: -Eschatology, -New Testament, Bible Issues, Early Christianity
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
(Image by SweetCapture via Flickr) There really could be dueling Jesuses in the future—Isa-Almasih (Jesus Messiah in the Quran) of Islam verses Jesus Christ of Christianity. First of all the birth of Jesus is portrayed in similar ways by both religions but the results are quite different. Both teach that Mary was a virgin and [...]
Filed under: -Christology, -Eschatology, Islam and Christianity
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
(Image by Yukari* via Flickr) For the small fee of $110, a new business will take care of your pets after the Rapture. They have signed up confessed non-believers to be involved in the ‘service’. Eternal Earth-Bound Pets styles itself as a service that will take care of ‘left behind’ pets when their Christian owners [...]
Filed under: -Atheism, -Eschatology
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